The 400 Year old historic town of Carbonear joins Targa Newfoundland 2010

ST. JOHN'S March 8th, 2010 - Known as the "Hub of the Bay" one of the oldest and most historic towns in Newfoundland will join the Targa family of communities. Carbonear, a town which was founded some 400 years ago in the early 1600's has agreed to bring what is arguably one of Newfoundland most modern and exciting events to the town. Carbonear will work with Targa Newfoundland to create and run a competitive stage in the town during the annual September motorsport classic, event organizers have announced.

The approximately 7.00-kilometre Targa stage will run through the heart of the historic Town of Carbonear and will become one of the critical final stages of the 2010 event. Carbonear town council approved a motion to host Targa at a meeting on February 15, 2009. The event will be coming to the town for the first time.

The new stage to be held on Friday September 17th and has been designed to be a very challenging "town" stage which will set the standard of competition for the balance of the final day of the event. The stage will be new to all the competitors and will be a real thrill for the fans. In previous years, the results of the stages held on the final day of competition strongly influence the outcome of the event for both the Targa and Grand Touring categories.
"We appreciate that the community is bringing Targa Newfoundland to Carbonear, and we wish to thank Mayor Slade, his council as well as their staff for the working with us to accomplish this," said Targa organizer Robert Giannou. "We know that Targa has a positive economic impact on the province and on communities along the route, and we are pleased that Carbonear will become part of the Targa family."

"We hope that thousands of TriCon peninsula spectators and fans will be able to travel to Carbonear to watch our Targa stage and enjoy our town's hospitality" said Mayor Slade "We have worked closely with Targa to choose a route that will be exciting as well as challenging. We welcome Targa and look forward to assisting them in providing this world class entertainment."
Owned and operated by Newfoundland International Motorsports Limited, Targa Newfoundland is one of three internationally recognized Targa motorsports events in the world. The 9th annual Targa Newfoundland will start in St. John's on Saturday, September 11, 2010, and end back in the capital Saturday, September 18. The competition will cover more than 2,000 kilometres of the challenging, twisty roads of the central and eastern portion of Newfoundland, including up to 450 kilometres of closed-road, flat-out Targa stages.

Competitors have come from the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Holland, Germany, the Bahamas, Turks & Caicos and the U.K. for the first editions of Targa Newfoundland and international interest continues to build with competitors registering daily.

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Contact:
Media: Doug Mepham 613-966-4969 d.mepham@bellnet.ca
Competitors: Melissa Crummey 709-722-2413 melissa@targanewfoundland.com
Sponsors: Scott Giannou 709-722-2413 scott@targanewfoundland.com